COLLECTIVE WORK

A work formed by the collection and assembling of pre-existing content “or of data that are selected, coordinated, or arranged in such a way that the resulting work as a whole constitutes an original work of authorship. The term ‘compilation’ includes both individual and collective works”.

Adapted from: Glossary of United States Copyright Office: a Department of Library of Congress, https://www.copyright.gov/comp3/docs/glossary.pdf